J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Caerphilly Castle from the North 1798

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Caerphilly Castle from the North’ 1798
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 1 Verso:
Caerphilly Castle from the North 1798
D01677
Turner Bequest XLII 2
Pencil and white chalk on buff laid paper, 174 x 125 mm
Stamped in black ‘XLII – 2’ bottom left
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The drawing is continued on folio 2 recto opposite (D01678; Turner Bequest XLII 3). Other views of Caerphilly in this book are on folios 3 recto and 31 verso–32 recto (D01680, D01737–D01738; Turner Bequest XLII 5, 62–63). Turner also studied the castle in his 1798 Cyfarthfa sketchbook (Tate D01636, D01637, D01639; Turner Bequest XLI 8, 9, 10a).
In Turner’s time the late thirteenth-century castle was an overgrown ruin, having been largely in desuetude since the mid fourteenth century. For further details see under D01636.

Andrew Wilton
March 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Caerphilly Castle from the North 1798 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, March 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, April 2015, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-caerphilly-castle-from-the-north-r1173873, accessed 27 April 2024.